“They pretend to be soft and cuddly do the Outers,” Gordon, an old engineering union shop steward told me, “but look at what they have done in the past and said they would do in future if they ran the country. The simple truth, Jack, is that Brexit would put at risk a generation of progress on the rights of working people,” he concluded.
He is spot on. You could not trust Boris Johnson or Michael Gove as far as you can throw them. Let me tell you a story of how six million workers had rights denied to them for a decade that ultimately were only won because we are in the European Union; rights that would go if we came out.
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